A cross-sectional study of parental self-reported physical violence against their children / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective:To investigate the prevalence of physical violence against children (PVAC)by parents and to explore possible related factors.Methods:In two primary schools in Liaoning Province,1164 parents of pupils in grade 1 to 6 were surveyed by a self-administered questionnaire anonymously to analyze situation about PVAC and related factors.PVAC was defined as having one or more following parent-to-child behaviors in the past three months:push,or shook a child;pinch,screw,or scratch a child;hit child's buttocks with hand;hit child's hand,foot,arm,leg or back with hand;hit child's buttocks with an object;hit child's face or head with hand;hit elsewhere (not buttocks)with an object;kicked a child with a foot or hit with a fist.Results:Of 1164 parents,53.1% reported that they had minor PVAC (51.0%)or/and severe PVAC (19.8%).Multivariate logistic regres-sion analysis indicated that following factors increased the risk of PVAC:child's male gender (OR =1.49),younger age of children (OR =1.38),poor school performance of children (OR =1.85 ),mother (OR =2.09),parents'childhood physical violence victimization experiences (OR =1.53),parents'supportive or tolerant attitudes towards corporal punishment (OR =3.15),parents'lower awareness of the harmfulness of physical violence against children (OR =2.31),and lower social economic status (OR =1.47).Conclusion:The PVAC by their parents may be com-mon in the present study.Parents'supportive or tolerant attitudes toward corporal punishment and low awareness of the harmfulness of physical violence is the main risk factors of PVAC.

Therapeutic effect assessment of integrated intervention for learning difficulties in children / 中国组织工程研究

BACKGROUND:Children with learning difficulty often present with cognitive impairments and imbalanced development of intelligence accompanied by emotional and behavioral problems.OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the therapeutic effects of integrated interventions in multiple aspects for children with learning difficulties.DESIGN:A case-control study of children with learning difficulties.SETTING:Department of Pediatric Internal Medicine, Union Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University.PARTICIPANTS:This study involved school-age children of 6 to 12years old with learning difficulties who came to the department specialized in pediatric psychology for consultation from July 1998 to July 2001. The diagnosis of learning difficulties conformed to the diagnostic criteria for special learning disability in ICD-10 with IQ ＞ 70 as an essential condition. Children with emotional disorders, mental deficiency, hyperactivity,visual and auditory dysfunctions and organic cerebral diseases were excluded. The diagnosis was further verified by a professor specialized in neuropsychology. The children voluntarily participated in the cognitive training, behavioral intervention and comprehensive trainings of senses and those who fulfilled the one-year treatment were included in this study. The ratio of therapists to the children was 1:2, and each session of treatment lasted for 90-120 minutes given 2-3 times a week, and a treatment course consisted of 24 sessions. The children were supposed to complete 4 consecutive treatment courses. Totally 31 children completed the treatment courses, including 24 boys and 7 girls with the mean age of(7.7±1.2)years who had an average IQ of 87.5±8.6.grated interventions for one year consisting of cognitive training, behavioral intervention and comprehensive training of the senses. Raven's Deductive Reasoning test and Beery Visual-Motor Integration Test were use to examine the deductive reasoning ability and visual-motor integration of the children, and visual attention test and auditory attention test, as well as sequential and reverse-sequence memory tests were employed to test their attentions. Achenbach children behavioral scale was applied to evaluate the children's behavioral problems, and Conners' questionnaire for children's behavioral problem was used to measure their attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) index.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Changes in the deductive reasoning ability, capability of visual-motor integration, attention and psychological behaviors after one year of intervention.RESULTS:All the 31 patients children entered the result analysis with no loss. After one year of integrated intervention, the children had significantly improved scores for Raven's Deductive Reasoning Test (87.51 ±8.64 vs 90.03±8.70, t=-9.610, P ＜ 0.001) and Beery Visual-Motor Integration Test (6.75±1.74 vs 8.27±1.94, t=-9.002, P ＜ 0.001). Obvious improvement was also seen in the visual attention test (15.90±20.11 vs 2.74±3.67), scope of auditory attention and memory (7.70±1.60 vs 11.23±1.23for sequential memory and 3.52±0.93 vs 6.97±0.16 for reversed-sequence memory, P ＜ 0.01). The total scores for ADHD assessment declined to different extents at 3 and 6 months during the treatment and upon the completion of the treatment (22.65±3.53 vs 18.87±4.14 at month 3, 5.65±3.92at month 6 and 12.65±3.36 at one year, t=7.35-15.36, P ＜ 0.01). The scores for 9 psychobehavioral items in Achenbach children behavioral scale obviously declined were also reduced significantly during the therapy,and 87% (26/31) of the children had obviously improved academic performance.CONCLUSION:Interventions integrating cognitive training, behavioral intervention and comprehensive training of the senses may produce good and persistent effect on the cognitive and emotional symptoms of children with learning difficulties, resulting in obviously improved visual, auditory and brain functions.

Effects of early intervention on functional outcome and content of GAP- 43 in the brain of rats with hypoxic-ischemic brain damage / 中华物理医学与康复杂志

Objective To study the effects of early intervention on functional outcome and content of growth associated protein (GAP- 43) in the brain of rats with hypoxic-ischemic brain damage (HIBD). Methods The animal model of intra-uterus HIBD was established in 30 pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats, who were then divided randomly into 4 groups: the intervention HIBD group (HIBD-IT),the non-intervention HIBD group (HIBD-NIT),the intervention control group(control-IT),the non-intervention control group(control-NIT). From the second day after the operation, the rats of the HIBD-IT and control-IT groups were kept in an enriched environment and administered with the neonatal handling including massage for 14 days. On the 28th day, jumping stand test was administered to all the rats, at the same time, the expression of GAP- 43 in brain of the rats in different groups were measured by immunohistochemical method. Results On the jumping stand test, the performance of control-IT and HIBD-IT groups were significantly better than that of the control-NIT and HIBD-NIT groups(P

Psychological Intervention for Family of Children with Hematological Tumor / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective: To explore the functions of psychological intervention in the integrative therapy for children's hematological tumor. Methods: The psychological status of 52 children with hematological tumor and their parents, and 48 healthy children and their parents were measured by means of the self-compiled psychological status scale and the symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90). Moreover, 26 children with hematological tumor and their parents, who were drawn out in random, were done by psychological intervention of 3 months as well as chemotherapy, and then their psychological status were evaluated. Results: The psychological problems were more prevalent in children with hematological tumor and their parents than those in the healthy children and their parents. Among the total, the problems of social behavior (3.9?2.9), personal emotion (7.1?4.7), habit (1.2?1.1), and learning (1.3?1.2) in the children with hematological tumor were more than those(1.5?1.6, 1.5?2.0, 0.5?0.7, 0.4?0.5) in the healthy children(P

Effects and Influent Agents of Early Education on Well-Being Infants / 中国心理卫生杂志

Object: To explore the effects and the influent agents of early education on the healthy termed infants. Methods: 52 healthy termed infants voluntary to the exercise center as experimental group were early educated. The other 52 infants as control group were in the same elementary conditions comparing to the experimental group. The experimental group was trained the corresponding projects and examined DQ at the beginning and the 3 rd,6 th,9 th month after training. The control group was only examined DQ at the beginning and after 9 months. Results:①At the 9 th month after training, DQ of the experimental group was improved 21.9?13.6, which was much 7 times higher than that of the control group, which was improved 3?3.0 (P

The function of GAP-43 on the recovery of brain injury / 中国病理生理杂志

Neuronal growth associated protein (GAP-43) is a membrane bound phosphoprotein found in the axonal growth cones of sprouting central nervous system axons. It is neuron specific and is proposed to play a critical role in growth cone function during development of the nervous system or the regenerative recovery from axon injury. The injury leads to the transfection of fibroblasts with the GAP-43 gene, which result in increasing GAP-43 expression. GAP-43 is expressed at high levels during the course of recovery of brain injury. GAP-43 acts with calmodulin and G protein to regulate metabolic responses that initates axonal growth. It is important to reestablish neuronal structure and axonal sprouting. The level of GAP-43 returns to basal level once sprouting has finished. So more and more researchers attach importance to the study of GAP-43, which will improve the level of treatment with brain injury. [

Early Intervention on Children with Mental Retardation / 中国心理卫生杂志

90 ). ③For the experimental group at baseline, DQ of the gross movement was the highest (71.5?10.5), while that of the other four areas were similar (fine movement 56.7?10.4, adaptability 59.6?12.5, language 54.3?11.7, social 56.8?14.7).Conclusions:Early intervention had significant effects for the development of children with mental retardation, which medicine has less role.

Relationship between leptin and idiopathic central precocious puberty in obese girls / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

Objective To explorethe influence of leptin on the onset of puberty, and to study the relationship between leptin and hormones relevant to gonadal axis and its effect on idiopathic central precocious puberty (ICPP) in obese girls. Methods Fifty-six girls with ICPP fulfilled the current diagnostic criteria and came from pediatric endocrinology clinic. The 56 cases were divided into 2 groups according to whether there was obesity or not: 38 non-obese girls with ICPP and 18 obese girls with ICPP. Forty-three age-matched prepubertal girls were divided into non-obese prepuberty group (25 girls) and obese prepuberty group (18 girls). Serum leptin wasassayedwithELISA,andserum FSH, LH and E 2 were determined with immunochemiluminescent. Results As compared with non-obese prepuberty group [(4.1?1.5)?g/L], the leptin concentrations in obese ICPP group [(14.7?7.5)?g/L], non-obese ICPP group [(8.8?5.1)?g/L] and obese prepuberty group [(8.0?5.3)?g/L] were significantly higher (P